I’m not trying to mock this dude. He’s obviously so lost in this beliefs that it’s deluding him. But I didn’t realize LARPers existed to this extent. I thought they were a meme. But here he is, unironically saying that enlisting in the Army willingly for the queen is equal to mandatory service in the Stalingrad.

Am I crazy/an asshole for thinking this dude is a huge larper?

  • lemmygrabber
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    82 years ago

    It’s from a sub called /r/AuthLeft. You won’t find anything of value in places like these.

    • GhoulOP
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      22 years ago

      I take less issue with AuthLeft people and, seemingly now, more with AuthLeft Reddit. Good to know.

      I’m in just absolute AWE. THEY’RE REAL??? Fuck it’s like finding out the easter bunny exists except instead of being excited, I’m extensively disappointed.

      • Free PalestineA
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        72 years ago

        I’m in just absolute AWE. THEY’RE REAL???

        If you can think it, someone genuinely believes it.

        There are people who genuinely believe Hitler didn’t order the execution of German officers, because post-war propaganda erased that part of history. There are people who, no joke, believe the age of Imperialism was the height of human society, and that we’ve been in decline since the empires fell. (I used to know a French imperialist, who believed northern Africa should be reinvaded by France, because they believe that will bring peace to the region.)

        • GhoulOP
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          52 years ago

          That’s (unfortunately) true.

  • @CriticalResist8A
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    72 years ago

    I have no idea what r/authleft is about and I’m not about to find out, but at least OP was called out and appropriately mocked lol

    • GhoulOP
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      42 years ago

      I’m just having the time of my life, but also stuck here like…how do you equate joining the British Army with mandatory service for Stalingrad? HUH???

  • Anarcho-Bolshevik
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    42 years ago

    Queer folks are not bourgeois.

    Yes they are.

    No they’re not.

    Yes they are.

    No they’re not.

    Yes they are.

    No they’re not.

    Yes they are.

    No they’re not.

    Yes they are.

    No they’re not.

    Yes they are.

    No they’re not.

    Yes they are.

    What a wonderfully productive discussion!!! I don’t know about you lot, but I’m sure that any poor people unacquainted with socialism would be so much happier to see us engaging in masturbatory arguments like that one instead of focusing on worthless crap like supporting strikers or accommodating the homeless!

    • GhoulOP
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      42 years ago

      I kept mentioning that as well, like I even asked him what he does to benefit his fellow worker, and he kept bringing around “I’m a veteran who does REAL work” and he wouldn’t even answer or kept going in circles. As your example shows, more or less.

  • @Antipacifist_Gang
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    22 years ago

    Its because its one of those “political compass” types who substitute actual theory with quantified nonsense politics based off a chart. Its completely ahistorical, completely devoid of theory, not just the “Authleft” but everyone who identifies in the political compass without prior theory, is usually this performative.